F25C tri - finishing the restoration fabrication jobs & prepping for paint
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- čas přidán 1. 10. 2023
- We're wrapping up all the projects to modernize rigging elements and make minor modifications after 22 years of the boat sitting in storage. Most of the work is carbon fiber composites, with a bit of fiberglass too. This video includes the details of the new trampoline net holding tubes.
If we hurry, we can get the boat painted and work on re-rigging for a fall launch & winter sailing in San Francisco. The boat is a 1995 Farrier F25C trimaran, bought as a kit from Colorado, painted the lavender color you see me sanding away, and sailed a few years in Florida before she came west.
Love to see your episodes. Thank you!
Greg, met you and that fine chocolate lab at Point Richmond when we were getting all of his ex racing boats ready for shipment. You are like a heart surgeon as they craft new blood supplies and clean up damages. I am always mesmerized by how you go about things. Wishing you all the best from Vallejo. Someday I will hopefully get a chance to ask for help on my Condor 30 trimaran.
Awww, Miss Ruby is blushing! Thank you for the kind thoughts Alan. I’d invite you over, but all we’re doing now is painful painting. I always wish for warm weather at painting time, but this is silly heat today! Look forward to seeing your Condor soon. Peace.
90's colors and shapes always makes me think of the Jazz the design on those dixie cups from the era. Either that or Lisa Frank designs on trapper keepers. would be real eyepoppin if you had a big old raven done in lisa frank style over the dixie cup teal and purple. you should probably go with something more sensible. I prefer my flashy colors on the sails.
You’ll love this mainsail, very 90’s MTV. I’m looking up Lisa Frank, and irrational vinyl is just fine!
Nice video Greg! It's coming along very well. As far colors, it's 90's not 60's or 70's, so no yellow or orange. I personally am a big fan of blue for boats, and painted my own "Medium Blue" (Interlux) last year, with white deck and cockpit. I did an old Solcat beach cat in their Fire Red, and it was pretty good. Are you going to paint it outside, or do you have a barn or shed you could park it for the final paint process? Seems like it would be hard to keep dust and bugs off outside. The old SS rigging to anchor the nets is genius. "Did I mention it was free?" LOL. Thanks for bringing us along for the ride.
So glad somebody caught that (free wire) rather than think I’m senile and repeating phrases ;)
The bugs buff out. Just ask my camper that didn’t fit in the workshop for painting.
I'm curious about the soft pad eyes can you put some info about them in the next episode please o and colour how about orange with grey none skid
Orange is awesome. But there’s already an orange 25C locally we’ll be racing against so I gotta come up with another scheme. Yes soft padeyes will get their own episode. I need to buy a bunch of small low friction rings first.
@@Ravenswingsailing I'm looking forward that padeyes episode. Considering going on a witch hunt against holes on the deck for my own F25c.
Great progress! How do you terminate the ex-F-27 s.s. Rigging wire at each end to prevent it from fraying and moving fore or aft? Maybe this is not an issue once trampoline lashing is done? I have zero esthetic sense according to my wife so can’t recommend paint schemes. However, a super bright dayglow on the undersides and daggerboard might help when that emergency tunnel is used.
I simply taped the ends of those cables. The forward edge of each tube is capped. Aft ends will get filled with a wood dowel plug, and a screw into the wood to hold it in place. Yes, the rudder and dagger get the same bright orange paint as the bowsprit and rudder cassette on Ravenswing. As for the boat graphics, I’m watching old 90’s tv reruns for ideas.
Excellent work! Regarding the diagonal blue dyneema racking prevention, do they run from forward float to aft main hull? Does that prevent forward racking of the float? How about aft racking (in the event of a float collision?) Maybe I'm missing something. Thank you.
Oh, wait. I bet the diagonal is to counteract racking pressure caused by the forward-pulling tension of the back stays and any foresails attached to a float?
Have wondered about what happens when (inevitably) one's float collides. I think I read from Ian that the shock travels aft then at a right angle up the aft beam to split to go up to the aft beam mount/compression plate and down through the lower strut to the mount. Wondering if my putting a diagonal stay to prevent afterward racking would help (stopping the afterward shock and keeping the shock force on the float) or would it be better to allow the shock to make its way through the beams and connections (being mostly epoxy/glass, might 'flex' and absorb.)
Must be F-boats aren't as vulnerable as I can imagine.
Yes, forward on the float to aft on main. It’s a very small diameter cable so I think of this more like shock absorbers on a car. Not the actual suspension taking heavy force, but rather smoothing out the shocks and helping to keep alignment. I would think it’s a good idea for your Tramp, but of course it means adding some reinforcements at all four anchor points.